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Re: Java on strongArm or in linux?

I thought that be died a miserable death due to the lack of sales on the
excellent hardware platform they were making.  The beBOX was the best
computer EVER made and that was it's downfall...  consumers and commercial
sales companies like things that crash and break.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Feinman <>
To: wear-hard list <>
Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Java on strongArm or in linux?

>
>>                 Linux           Win95           WinNT           MacOS
>> Price           free            $89/$209        $190+           $99
>> Stable          excellent       flaky           excellent       good
>> configurability excellent       fair            good            good
>> powermanagement good            good            good            excellent
>> tech support    excellent       bad             bad?            good
>> system size     20+ megs        100+ megs       100++ megs      100+ megs
>
>Don't forget:
>
>                BeOS
>Price           $50 / free (to registered developers)
>Stable          good
>configurability excellent
>powermanagement bad-excellent (write it yourself)
>tech support    excellent
>system size     40 megs, plus VM
>
>Anyone care to hack it to run on PC/104? I'm sure it's a trivial port now
>that the Intel release is out ;-)
>
>>   but these aren't the only criteria for many of us. There's also
application
>> base and document format compatibilty issues (note how each new MS Office
>> release uses document formats that are incompatible with previous
versions to
>> gently nudge all of us to upgrade :^b ). Granted I'm currently laptop
based &
>> need to collaborate on documents with others in my office and in other
>> companies.
>
>Personally, I haven't found any apps outside of elm, vi, and some sort of
>addressbook I'll want on my wearable, whenever I get around to making it.
>Of course, this is the voice of inexperience...
>
>> ==== ==== Ian M. Dew, Senior Software Engineer
>
>Alex Feinman
>

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